NBCUniversal Told Managers to Fight Unions in Role-Playing Exercise
Training materials for 2019 session said company ‘will not tolerate’ unionizing.
Managers at NBCUniversal participated in a role-playing session where they sought ways to defeat unionization.
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Comcast Corp.’s NBCUniversal held a role-play session for managers about how to defeat union drives, a task the training materials for the exercise said was necessary for employees to keep their jobs.
In the hourslong simulation, managers were tasked with running a television station called WSEE-TV that had to figure out how to prevent employees from unionizing with the Communications Workers of America. Training materials that accompanied the 2019 session laid out the importance of keeping unions at bay.